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D. A. RAGE & R.-G. BIRD. ADJUSTABLE BRACKET P011 WINDOW SHADES.

No. 510,815. I Patented Dec. 1893.

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UNITED STATES PATENT FF I C E e DUSTAN A. PAGE AND RICHARD o. BIRD, or OHICA'GQ-ILLINQIS; SAID. PAGE ASSIGNOR T sAID BIRD.

ADJUSTABLE BRACKET FOR W|NDOW-SHADES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0. 510,815, dated December 12, 1893.

- Application filed April 3, 1893- Serial No. 46 ,907. (No model.)

To all whom itmay concern:

Be it known that we, DUSTAN A.,PAGE and RICHARD 'O. BIRD, both citizens of the United States, and residents of the city of Chicago, 5 county of Cook, and State of Illinois, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Adjustable Brackets for Window-Shades, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in adjustable and movable brackets, and while itis more especially designed for window shades, yet it may be used for analogous purposes, and consists in certain peculiarities of the construction, novel I 5 arrangement and operation of the various parts thereof as will be hereinafter more fully set forth and specifically claimed.

The objects of this invention are, first, to provide a bracket for window shades that shall be attractive in appearance, simple and inexpensive in construction, yet effective in operation; second, such a bracket which can be readily adjusted to the various lengths of shade-rollers for windows of different sizes, and third, which may be raised or lowered to any part of the window frame and there secured, thus screening or shading any portion of the window desired, and permitting ventilation and admission of light at the upper part of the window without hinderance by the shade cloth. We attain these objects by the specific construction and operation of our device as explained below, and in order to 611- able others skilled in the art to which our in- 3 5 vention pertains to make and use the same, we will now proceed to describe it, referring to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1, is a perspective view of a window, and a portion of the wall of a room, showing a window shade, mounted on a roller secured in one of our brackets, and partially lowered from the top of the casing. Fig. 2, is a plan View ofth e bracket as'it appears when secured to a shade-roller. Fig. 3, is a front view of the bracket removed from the window casing, with the roller in place and the shade partially unrolled. Fig. 4, is a similar view showing the bracket adjusted to a roller of a shorter length. Fig. 5, is a view in cross-section taken on line 77 of Fig. 4.

. Similarletters refer to like parts throughout the different views of the drawings.

A, represents the wall of a room, 13, the window casing, and 0, O, the sashes. To the upper horizontal part of the casing B, and near 5 each end thereof are secured screw-eyes or small pulleys a, through or over which pass cords b, b, which are secured at one of their ends to near the ends of the bracket'D, the free portions of the cords beingpassed through suitable'fast'enings or screw-eyes c, on one side of the casing 13, and secured to a button 01, or similar device, near the bottom of-the casing.

As is clearly shown in the drawings the bracket D, is made of two pieces E, and E, which are preferably of a flat or rectangular form in cross-section, and present their edges vertically, or in other words, to the roller and the upper portion" of the casing, thereby af- 7o fording greater strength and rigidity. At

their outer ends the pieces E, and E, are bent downward substantially at right angles, and when made of flat or rectangular shaped .material, are twisted as shown at e, in order that 7 5 they may be so bent. The down turned portion e, of the piece E, of the bracket D, is formed or provided with a quadrilateral slot or opening f, for the reception and retention of .the projection g, on one end of the roller G, which projection is usually of a similar form; while the down turned portion e of the piece E, is formed with a circular opening, for the cylind rically formedprojection g, on the other end of the shade-roller. It will therefore be understood that when the ends of the bracket are formed as above stated,

it is especially adapted for the use of the ordinary automatic spring roller, and when designed for a roller without springs, that the slot f, in the portion 6, may be formed circular at its bottom so that the projections on the roller will turn therein. The pieces E, E, of the bracket D lap each other at their inner ends and are adjustably secured together by means of a sleeve H, of rectangular interior cross section through which said pieces are passed where they lap; and they are then firmly held by thumb-screws h, as

is clearly shown in Fig. 5 of the drawings. roo

The sleeve H is formed with alongitudinal slot 71 along one side, and in the other side opposite said slot are several threaded holes 7% somewhat smaller in diameter than the width of the slot 7L3. The pieces E are of equal size with each other and their lapping ends are provided with longitudinal slots 2' which are of equal width with each other and of less width that the slot it in the sleevebut of slightly greater width than the diameter of the holes h. Each of the set screws It has an enlarged shoulder 72 between its handle and its threaded bodythis shoulder being slightly smaller in diameter than the width of the slot 72 in the sleeve but larger than that of the slots 2' in the pieces E. In applying this sleeve to the lapping pieces E, it can be put on either side front as will be clear since the pieces E are of the same size and their slots i correspond in any position, but the sleeve is preferably applied as shown in Fig. 4 with the slot 71.3 toward the front or the room-side of the device. The thumb screws 71. are then passed into the slot 7L3 and their threaded bodies passed loosely through the slots i in the pieces E and screwed into the threaded holes h in the rear of the sleeve. This motion draws the shoulder 7L2 of each thumb screw into the slot 72. in the front of the sleeve and tightly against the front piece E on either side of its slot t-all as best seen in Fig. 5.

It will be readily seen, that in eitherof the constructions above set forth, the bracket maybe quickly and easily adjusted to a roller of any desired length, by passing the pieces of the bracket D, through the sleeve, until the ends e, e are in proper position to receive the projections on the ends of the rollers, when said pieces may be firmly secured by means of the thumb-screws. In order to lower the bracket, or to let the light in at the top or upper portion of the window, or to permit ventilation at said point itis only necessary to loosen the cord (7, from the button or fastening (1, when the weight of the shade I, its roller G, and bracket, will cause it to descend to the desired point, when it may be secured by again fastening the cord to the button.

While we have shown the bracket made of flat or rectangular pieces, yet we do not desire to be limited to said form,as we may employ different ones, without departing from the spirit of our invention.

Having thus fully described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

An adjustable and movable bracket for window shades, the same consisting of two rectangular supporting pieces of the same size in cross section set on edge with theirinner ends lapping each other and there having aligned longitudinal slots of equal width with each otherand their outer ends bent down and provided with openings for the stub-shafts of a curtain roller; a sleeve of rectangular internal cross-section loosely embracing said lapped ends and having a longitudinal slot along one side wider than the slots in the supporting pieces and threaded openings in its other side opposite its own slot and of less diameter than the width of said aligned slots; and thumb screws each having a shoulder between its handle and body fitting closely in the slot in the sleeve with its face against one of said pieces, the shank of the screw passing loosely through the aligned slots in the pieces and screwing into the threaded opening in the; 0

other side of the sleeve, as and for the pui' pose set forth. 3 DUSTAN A.- PAGE...

RICHARD O. BIRD. 

